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100 1 $aSwanberg, W. A.$q(William Andrew),$d1907-1992.
245 14 $aThe rector and the rogue /$cby W.A. Swanberg ; edited and with an afterword by Paul Collins.
260 $aSan Francisco :$bMcSweeneys Books,$c2011.
300 $a184 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
520 $aIt began quietly enough one morning in February 1880, with a mutton-chopped Acme Safe Company salesman knocking on the door of Reverend Morgan Dix, the starchiest clergyman in Manhattan's most respectable church. The salesman was surely misdirected, Reverend Dix explained, he had no need for a safe, and he had not made an appointment. But soon after, used clothes dealers arrived, followed by heavy machinery salesmen, and soon the street filled riotously with wave after wave of solicitor-tormentors, hundreds of funeral directors, horse traders, wigmakers, fellow clergymen, doctors, all insisting they'd been summoned by the bewildered Reverend Dix. And for weeks, it continued in this manner. Reporters from every newspaper in New York camped out to watch the fun, and as the story gained national attention, police and postal officers raced to capture the gleeful prankster-cum-performance artist who was making a mockery of the esteemed Trinity Church.
600 10 $aWilliamson, Eugene Edward Fairfax.
600 10 $aDix, Morgan,$d1827-1908.
650 0 $aPractical jokes.
700 1 $aCollins, Paul.
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